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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.
While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right read more
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
My hair is grey, but not with years.
My hair is grey, but not with years.
