Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.

One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.

He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept affliction is taken prisoner by evil thoughts, even though he resists them.

When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what will come from it, and you will see that your insulter has become the cause of many benefits to you, not only in this age, but in that which is to come.