Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.