The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.