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Learn now to suffer a little, that then thou mayest be enabled to escape heavier sufferings.

And because many seek knowledge rather than good living, therefore they go astray, and bear little or no fruit.

Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul.

Be not high-minded, but rather confess thine ignorance.

What will it avail thee to dispute profoundly of the Trinity, if thou be void of humility, and art thereby displeasing to the Trinity?

It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.

We are ready to see others made perfect, and yet we do not amend our own shortcomings.

Thou art miserable wheresoever thou art, and whithersoever thou turnest, unless thou turn thee to God.

Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Look well unto thyself, and beware that thou judge not the doings of others. In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboureth to good purpose.

The greatest saints used to avoid as far as they could the company of men, and chose to live in secret with God.