There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.