All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.