It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

There's nothing unmanly about surrender. It takes a brave man to give in.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself again through music.

An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

If God is not sovereign, God is not God.