Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.

I fear the man of a single book.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided.

Every other is wholly other.

-- Jacques Derrida

Evil, too, has its place within the scheme of the Good.

-- Plotinus

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

-- Simone Weil

The purpose of human existence is to attain supreme happiness.

-- Farabi

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love.

-- Albert Camus