By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.