We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.