I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.