What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.