Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
