"The sage and the contemner of wealth most resemble God."

"You have in yourself some thing similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God, on account of that w…"

"The greatest honor which can be paid to God is to know and imitate him."

"Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity."

"A good intellect is the choir of divinity."

"Be not anxious to please the multitude"

"Accustom your soul after (it has conceived all that is great of) divinity, to conceive something great of itself."

"To live, indeed, is not in our power; but to live rightly is."

"There is danger, and no negligible one, to speak of God even the things that are true."

"You should not dare to speak of God to the multitude."