The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.