Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.