"The world is not eternal, but was created ex nihilo."

"their [the Turks and the blacks] nature is like the nature of mute animals, and according to my opinion they are not on the level of human beings."

"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty."

"There is no more excellent quality for man than humility."

"any man who believes in the truth of wizardry is a fool, lacking in understanding, and is in the same class as women and children, whose intellects are incomplete."