Only He who made man makes man happy.
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.