The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.