The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

I hate all children of precocious talent.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child