God's first creature, which was light.
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
For knowledge, too, is itself power.