Now is not the time for making new enemies.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Friends should be preferred to kings.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.