If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

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.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.