avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.