He Who Is Virtuous Is Wise; And

In Other Living Creatures The Ignorance Of Themselves Is Nature, But In Men It Is A Vice.

And No Renown Can Render You Well-known: For If You Think That Fame Can Lengthen Life By Mortal Famousness Immortalized, The Day Will Come That Takes Your Fame As Well, And There A Second Death For You Awaits.

Whose Happiness Is So Firmly Established That He Has No Quarrel From Any Side With His Estate Of Life?

A Man Content To Go To Heaven Alone Will Never Go To Heaven.

So It Follows That Those Who Have Reason Have Freedom To Will Or Not To Will, Although This Freedom Is Not Equal In All Of Them. [...] Human Souls Are More Free When They Persevere In The Contemplation Of The Mind Of God, Less Free When They Descend To The Corporeal, And Even Less Free When They Are Entirely Imprisoned In Earthly Flesh And Blood.