Joseph Sanial-Dubay
View AuthorWhen one has not known how to live, even less can one know how to die.
Joseph Sanial-Dubay
View AuthorThe authority of fashion is such that it forces us to be ridiculous in order not to appear so.
Joseph Sanial-Dubay
View AuthorAbuses, even in the most solid state, are silent mines that sooner or later explode.
Saint Catherine of Siena
View AuthorThe strongest and purest love is not that which rises from impression, but that which descends from admiration.
Saint Catherine of Siena
View AuthorEnough of silences! Shout with a hundred thousand tongues! Because, by having been silent, the world is rotten!
Saint Catherine of Siena
View AuthorOne thing I ask of you, and that is not to be swayed by excessive advice. It is better to choose an advisor who advises you sincerely, and to follow them. It is dangerous to accompany many.
Saint Catherine of Siena
View AuthorIn bitterness you will desire sweetness, and in war, peace.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorIf in the midst of adversities the heart perseveres with serenity, with joy, and with peace, this is love.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorWhoever has God lacks nothing. God alone is enough.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorI have committed the worst of sins, I wanted to be happy.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorRead and you will drive, don't read and you will be driven.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorOh, 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.