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

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.