Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
This world's a bubble.
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
He who labours, prays.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
God is best known in not knowing him.
What then is time If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful but I have never read in either of them Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.''
The greatest evil is physical pain.
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me
To seek the highest good is to live well.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Custom is second nature.
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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