If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the image of the Father, and in the Spirit the seal of the Son. Let us, then, sealed by this Trinity, take more diligent heed, lest either levity of character or the deceit of any unfaithfulness unseal the pledge which we have received in our hearts.