If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

Because God that is immutable changes what He willed, He is said to repent, although what changes is a thing and not His counsel.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder