The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.