Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.