So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.