Reason is the gaze of the soul, with the help of which it alone, without the mediation of the body, illuminates the true things.
Hiding the truth is either a test of our humility or a humiliation of pride.
Holy God! You did not create the earth and the sky from Yourself, for then they would have been like You. Yet, even apart from You there was nothing that You could have created for Them. As a result, You created them out of nothing.
Perfection lies in man's knowledge of his own imperfection.
Do good, and do so not for the sake of your own fame, but for the sake of Him to whom you owe the opportunity to do good.
In your own name you are only able to do evil; the good you do comes from God.
The way souls merge with bodies is absolutely amazing and completely unfathomable to man, but still, that's man.
The most just punishment for sin is for man to lose what he did not want to use properly.
He who is good is free, even if he is a slave; he who is evil is a slave, even if he is a king.
What can be more repulsive, what gathers upon man more wrath for the day of the pure Judgment of the Lord, if not joy in the face of another's misfortune, when man resembles the devil?
What I understand, that is what I believe; but not everything I believe and understand. Everything I understand, that's what I know, but I don't believe everything I know. Therefore, although there are many things that I cannot know, it is useful to believe in them.
I want to know God and soul and nothing more.
The obvious truth that leaves man cold, charms him when revealed to him in an allegory.
He is a fool who, having become rich, forgets his friend.
Conversations that last a long time consume life.
God does everything as he wants, and man as he can.
He who speaks evil is always at a loss.
The working wife loves work and keeps you out of harm's way.
A bad wife in the house is like a whirlwind.
The wicked man lives sinfully even when he is rich.
Many can speak, only few can understand.
Better to be silent than to speak evil.
Many who do evil lose rank.
The wise are shown the solution at night.
Do no harm to the fallen man, and no harm will come to you.
Don't judge by appearances, but by deeds.
You will find no life that has passed without sorrows.
No one will say about himself: I am bad.
One thing cannot be defeated in man: the inclination towards women.
The blameless wife - wealth to the man's house and the man's salvation.