"Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed."

"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."

"The greater the mind, the more the passions."

"We make idols of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship."

"We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have discovered ourselves than by those found by others."