Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Don't disarrange my circles!

We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.