Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.