Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

When they remain silent, they cry out.

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.