If You Run After Wit, You Will

A Prince Who Loves And Fears Religion Is A Lion Who Stoops To The Hand That Strokes Or To The Voice That Appeases Him. He Who Fears And Hates Religion Is Like The Savage Beast That Growls And Bites The Chain, Which Prevents His Flying On The Passenger. He Who Has No Religion At All Is That Terrible Animal Who Perceives His Liberty Only When He Tears In Pieces, And When He Devours.

A Nation May Lose Its Liberties In A Day And Not Miss Them In A Century.

There Is No Nation So Powerful, As The One That Obeys Its Laws Not From Principals Of Fear Or Reason, But From Passion.

Knowledge Humanizes Mankind, And Reason Inclines To Mildness; But Prejudices Eradicate Every Tender Disposition.

[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.