The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.

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