To make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

Thus the sun which possesses light perfectly, can shine by itself; whereas the moon which has the nature of light imperfectly, sheds only a borrowed light.

Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.

The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.

In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.

Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.

Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions

Nothing can be known, save what is true;

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

It is better to illuminate than merely to shine. Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum.

But a dauntless faith believes

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.

It has become the fashion to talk about Mysticism, even to pose as Mystics, and—need it be said?—those who talk the most on such subjects are those who know the least.

Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatsoever will make the hearers good men.

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): "Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.

Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

Nothing made me happen. I happened.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

We can only learn so much and live.

Silence can mock.

We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter

Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.