Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
In bitterness you will desire sweetness, and in war, peace.
If in the midst of adversities the heart perseveres with serenity, with joy, and with peace, this is love.
Read and you will drive, don't read and you will be driven.
Oh, how long this life is! / How hard these exiles are! / This prison, these chains / in which the soul is confined! / Only waiting for the way out causes me such fierce pain, / that I am dying because I do not die.
The untilled land will bear thorns and thistles even though it may be fertile; so is the understanding of man.
Extremes are not good even in virtue.
From absurd devotions and bitter saints, deliver us, Lord.