Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
The passions are the voice of the body.
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.