牽涉私事的人不適宜即時轉向屬靈的事項：好像把沒有餌的魚鉤拋入水中。 It is not fitting that those who are implicated in their own affairs should immediately turn to the things of the soul: that would be like casting a hook without worm or bait.

無論是否有理，切勿跟人反駁； 卻時常接納眾人贊同的。 Never contradict anybody, with cause or without; but always accept what others approve.

魔鬼有時除去全部恐懼，以免你跌倒： 另一刻增加恐懼，使你放棄：二者都讓你滅亡。 At one moment the devil takes away all fear, lest you fall: at another he increases it, that you may yield: and both to your destruction.

少聖德和體強身健 比大聖德而多病體弱更能照顧靈魂。 A little holiness and great health of body does more in the care of souls than great holiness and little health.

並非本質上邪惡的事物，不應怕可能被濫用而將其收起，此一作為會封閉愈顯主榮的路徑。 Nothing that is not in itself evil is to be put away because abuse of it is possible: to do so would shut the way to a great increase of God’s glory.

最好在早上和世俗人交談有關救贖的事， 下午才談俗世的事。 It is best to converse with seculars of matters relating to salvation in the morning, and of profane matters after midday.

如果身體以患病為藉口埋怨克己，盼望舒服，不用聽從，卻要用其他同等的克苦來代替，加以懲戒。 If the body complains of being mortified on the pretext that it is ill, it is not to be listened to in the hope of ease, but chastised by the substitution of some other equal mortification.

照顧靈魂的人正需要勇氣， 以免照料別人的得救時，卻危及自己的得救。 Those who have care of souls need nothing so much as courage, lest, while they are looking after others’ salvation, they endanger their own.

自知本身全部弱點的人絕無僅有， 除非天主對他顯露無遺。 Rare indeed is the man who knows all his weaknesses of all kinds, unless God specially reveals them to him.