The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

Fasting is a medicine.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

Therefore, not only are their passions satanic, but their lives are diabolic. So I say to you that these are even worse than murderers, and that it would be better to die than to live in such dishonor. A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas these destroy the soul inside the body..... There is nothing, absolutely nothing more mad or damaging than this perversity.

Where dance is, there is the devil.