All cruelty springs from weakness.
The soul is not disfigured by the ugliness of the body, but rather the opposite, that the body is beautified by the comeliness of the soul.
Let every action aim at the common good.
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
It is man’s peculiar fate to love even those who do him wrong.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.