I would have perished had I not perished.
He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. by Saint Philo of Alexandria
Learning is by nature curiosity. . . prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin?
It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [. . . ] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time.
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
I think we have gone too far into the PC culture. But there's a limit to how far we can take that.
My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.
Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.