“But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.”
“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.”
“Which eternity can be bigger or smaller? But which reality can be an eternity in your mind?”
“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.”
“As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.”