Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.