Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
Reality and perfection are synonymous.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.