None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.