“It is certain because it is impossible”

“Certum est, quia impossible est.”

“For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.”

“Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.”

“If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.”

“Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.”

“Wide are men’s inquiries into uncertainties; wider still are their disputes about conjectures.”