Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.