Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.