Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.