Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.