It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

The desire to write grows with writing.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.