What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.