留意兩種內、外的克己的分別： 前者是主要的，人應時常尋求的； 後者按照地點、人物及時間等處境衡量。

藉請求或禮物獲得你想要的， 總比用爭鬥得到好。 Better to get what you want by a request or a gift than by fighting for it.

很多人被吸引愛慕德行， 往往是由於他們敬重的人推介，多於德行本身。 Many folk are drawn to love virtue more through its being commended by a man they esteem than for its own sake.

越尖銳注意別人的缺失，越容易忽略自己的缺失。 The sharper you are at noticing other people’s failings, the more apt will you be to overlook your own.

身體會因鬆懈而生病或過分嚴厲而虛弱， 必須向天主交賬—即使後者似是為他的光榮而做。 Whether the body be made prone to some fault by softness, or weakened by excessive severity, an account must equally be rendered to God —even though the latter course may seem to have been undertaken for his honor and glory.

若人不能為主放棄一切，最少在一切事上尋求主旨，事情或許繁多，基督從不認為需要甚麼。 If a man is not moved to forsake all that is his for God, let him nonetheless refer all things to him; many though they be, there will always be less than one thing that Christ called needful.

為使矯正生效，矯正者須有權力，或被矯正者有愛。 For correction to be of any use, either he who corrects must have authority, or he who is corrected proved love.

你的懦弱使魔鬼更加肆無忌憚， 正如婦人因看到所愛男子軟弱而肆無忌憚一樣。 Your cowardice makes the devil bolder, just as women are bold only when they see that their lovers are soft.

我們從交談或爭辯學到的都不及謙虛地求助於天主。 We do not learn so much from conversation or argument as from humble recourse to God.

為免私愛使人誤入歧途，判斷自己事務時，應視之為他人之事：我們的判斷應受真理而非情感引導。 So that our self-love may not lead us astray in dealing with matters that concern ourselves, we should think of them as if they concerned others, that thus our judgment may be guided by truth and not by affection.