Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.