It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.