It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but...
Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a...
Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of...
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.