If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have su…

Ces deux moities de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!

Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land.

Erring, I wandered in the wilderness, In passion's grave nigh sinking, powerless; Now deeply I repent, in sore distress, That I kept not the statutes of the Ki…