Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.

Death is the vast perhaps.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.