Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.