When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
Haste is of the Devil.
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
Why do you not practise what you preach.
Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
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