The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.
Keep cool and you will command everyone.
The safety of the state is the highest law.
Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!