"Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for m…"

"The true science and study of man is man."

"All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a var…"

""All men," said a wise and good priest, "maintain that they hold and believe their religion (and all use the same jar…"

"(About the Assumption of Mary) She who was conceived without spot and borne without pain, who became mother without l…"

"Of all the things to seek, the first is wisdom, in which lies the form of perfect goodness."

"Wisdom enlightens human beings so that they may recognise themselves."

"Tell me, I beg you, what – among all things – has become the one thing for you, the thing you want to embrace in a un…"

"Omnia disce. Videbis postea nihil esse superfluum. Coartata scientia iucunda non est."

"Delicatus ille est adhuc cui patria dulcis est; fortis autem iam, cui omne solum patria est; perfectus vero, cui mund…"