A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

No animal admires another animal.

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.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.