Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.