I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.