When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.