A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior