A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.