The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but - what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

The violence which assails good men to test them, to cleanse and purify them, effects in the wicked their condemnation, ruin, and annihilation.

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

Virtue and vice are not the same, even if they undergo the same torment.