Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

There is no possible source of evil except good.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.