I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

The argument is at an end.