Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?