The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.