Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

In France there are three kinds of professions: the church, the sword, and the long robe. Each hath a sovereign contempt for the other two. For example, a man who ought to be despised only for being a fool is often so because he is a lawyer.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

The Pope will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread...and a thousand other things of the same kind.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves.