"Jealousy is the homage that inferiority pays to merit."

"In retailing slander, we name the originator, in order to enjoy a pleasure without danger."

"One seeks new friends only when too well known by old ones."

"A great name without merit is like an epitaph on a coffin."

"Would you know how to give? Put yourself in the place of him who receives."

"(About the Assumption of Mary) She who was conceived without spot and borne without pain, who became mother without l…"

"Of all the things to seek, the first is wisdom, in which lies the form of perfect goodness."

"Wisdom enlightens human beings so that they may recognise themselves."

"Tell me, I beg you, what – among all things – has become the one thing for you, the thing you want to embrace in a un…"

"Omnia disce. Videbis postea nihil esse superfluum. Coartata scientia iucunda non est."