The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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.

The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?