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

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

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 prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

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

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.