The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
The spirit is the true self.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.