Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.