I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.