Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
To Whom does our God say, 'in our image' (Gen. 1:26), to whom if it is not to Him who is 'the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
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