The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.