He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.