若有人提出请求，给予反会做成伤害，即使拒绝，仍要小心挽留请求者的友谊。

在某些事情上，沉默胜过言语。真理为自身辩护时，毋需修辞技巧帮助。

当万事如意时，勿以为能持续地鸿运当头，反应为此警戒怵惕。 When everything goes as you want it to, put no trust in the continuance of your good fortune, but fear all the more.

较天主美好的各种创造，监狱、脚镣和耻辱等根本不算什么。 All the good things God has created, weighed against prison, fetters, and disgrace, should count for nothing at all.

要所有人走同一条路是危险的：把自己和别人比较更坏。 It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

当魔鬼以某种痛苦攻击及骚扰人时，会选择在夜间行事。 When the devil wants to attack and harass a man with peculiar bitterness, he prefers to work at night.

长远而言，真理战无不胜；纵然受到攻击，无法克胜真理。 Nothing resists the truth for long: it may be assailed, but never overcome.

对小罪不以为意，比对大罪等闲视之，更为危险。 Much more danger lurks in making light of little sins than of great ones.

有时魔鬼折磨人至精神失常： 以致我们本应归咎于诱惑， 反而认为是出于自然或疾病所造成。

若有人不因己过而喜欢受地狱永苦，他会轻易忍受地狱的一切痛苦，除了受罚者对天主的咒骂。

我们不单为天主，也应因天主的缘故为他人着想。 We ought to consider not only God, but also men for his sake.

如果我发现，任何隐藏灵魂内的只是人欲而非全然神圣，生命将难以忍受。