The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
For which of you desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
The teacher should regard the pupil as his child. The pupil should regard the teacher as his parent.
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if is received with thanksgiving: for then it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
