Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.