Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

Water is happy when it falls

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I never write a play with an eye to film.

You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul.

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

The trouble with never is never, never works.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.