Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
It needs courage to be afraid.
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself