Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.