Expect temptation to your last breath.

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.

The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.