God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need