Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

Life without literary studies is death.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.