This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
Without hope we live in desire.
The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.