There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

We come to God by love and not by navigation.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

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