We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.