"Let us praise what is truly praiseworthy, the glory of human nature; let us give thanks that it was granted also to u…"

"Even though a person was not without education insofar as he learned from what he suffered, it still would never be v…"

"You may have heard how someone who had thoughtlessly frittered away his life and never understood anything but wasted…"

"If a person with troubled imagination conjured up anxieties he was unable to surmount, while he still could not leave…"

"Since life is uncertain, there is something one desires to preserve, desires to safeguard for oneself. ... It could n…"

"Spiritually, deliberation is a difficult and rather unrewarding labor. One dares leave nothing out in the fog, leave …"

"Does patience perhaps say with the cold calculation of the understanding that wishing is useless and that therefore o…"

"To preserve one’s soul in patience—that is, to keep the soul bound together in patience so that it does not go …"

"What is hope? An importunate pest one cannot get rid of, a cunning deceiver who holds out even longer than integrity,…"

"He who, believing, continues to aspire to the eternal never becomes satiated in such a way that he does not continue …"