No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.
If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
No great thing is created suddenly.
We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.