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Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.
If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest
It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.
If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.
How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.
Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum
A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.
Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.
No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.
We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.