If Every Man Took Only

Reprimand And Rebuke Should Be Accepted As Healing Remedies For Vice And As Conducive To Good Health. From This It Is Clear That Those Who Pretend To Be Tolerant Because They Wish To Flatter---those Who Thus Fail To Correct Sinners---actually Cause Them To Suffer Supreme Loss And Plot The Destruction Of That Life Which Is Their True Life.

In Truth, To Know Oneself Seems To Be The Hardest Of All Things. Not Only Our Eye, Which Observes External Objects, Does Not Use The Sense Of Sight Upon Itself, But Even Our Mind, Which Contemplates Intently Another's Sin, Is Slow In The Recognition Of Its Own Defects.

Troubles Are Usually The Brooms And Shovels That Smooth The Road To A Good Man's Fortune.

Just As A Very Little Fresh Water Is Blown Away By A Storm Of Wind And Dust, In Like Manner The Good Deeds, That We Think We Do In This Life, Are Overwhelmed By The Multitude Of Evils.

Every Evil Is A Sickness Of Soul, But Virtue Offers The Cause Of Its Health.