The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.