I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.