"Like some spark lighting upon our inmost soul, love was kindled and burst into flame within us—a love at once to the …"

"The soul is free, and cannot be coerced by any means, not even though one should confine it and keep guard over it in…"

"If wisdom follows knowledge, so troubles attend on wisdom."

"How great is the envy which follows a man from his neighbours, like the sting of a wicked spirit... he who receives i…"

"I put a poor youth, if he be wise, before an aged prince devoid of wisdom."

"The fool is proved above all things by his finding no satisfaction in any lust."

"For the most part, righteousness of life leads a man to poverty."

"For men who lie on earth there is but one salvation, that their souls acknowledge and wing their way to Him by whom t…"

"Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death."

"As Goliath had his head cut off with his own sword, so also is the devil, who has been the father of death, put to ro…"