...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.