Religious Sayings

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue.

The female is also more given to melancholy and more despondent, and more apt to be sad.

I am the Scourge of God.

To be a queen is to be a god.

The Church is my mother, but the State is my father.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

If you always remember that God stands by you, and inspects your acts, whether in soul or body, you will not err either in your prayers or in your acts.

Let no one when young delay to study philosophy, nor when old grow weary of studying it. For no one is either too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expe…

If a man steals an ox, a sheep, an ass, a pig, or a boat, from a god or the palace, he shall pay thirtyfold. If he steals from a private citizen, he shall pay tenfold. If the thief has nothing with which to pay, he shall be put to death.

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, that ruinous wrath which brought the Achaeans countless woes, and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes, and gave their bodies to be a prey to dogs and all winged fowls.

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

The Britons are savages who worship trees.

The Britons are a people who worship the devil.

The greatest mistake of a soul is non-restraint.

There is no quality of soul more subtile than non-attachment.

The soul is its own friend and its own enemy.