SER. LXIX.
How great a relief of nature is sleep, it is the image of death, and the rest of the outward senses.
Sleep is one thing only, but the desire of it has many reasons and causes; I mean from nature, from food, from fate, and perhaps also from excessive and intense fasting, by means of which the flesh, becoming unnerved and deprived of strength, wishes to recover itself for subsequent actions by means of sleep.
As much drinking is called a habit, so is much sleep, and it is difficult to get rid of an inveterate habit.
SER. LXXIV.
Pardon is apt to engender repentance.
SER. LXXIX.
Shamelessness is the characteristic of a worthless man, and modesty of a virtuous man, but never to feel either ashamed or bold is a mark of one who is slow of comprehension, and who is without the power of giving assent.
SER. LXXXII.
Since God penetrates invisibly in the region of the soul, let us prepare that region in the best manner that we are able to, or rather that it may be a habitation fit for God, otherwise, without our being aware of it, God will depart and remove to some other abode.
The mind of a wise man is the house of God, and he is called, in an especial manner, the God of all mankind, as the prophet says when speaking of the mind of a wise man, he calls it “that in which God Walks,”{13}{#le 26:12.} as in a palace.
What is visible and actually before us is comprehended by the eyes, but the pure faculty of reason extends even to what is unseen and future.
SER. LXXXVII.
God who is merciful by nature will never exonerate from guilt the man who swears falsely for an unrighteous object, as such a man is impure and defiled, even though he may escape the punishments inflicted by men.
SER. XCIX.
Those things which are kept in the dark for a while by envy, are at last released and brought to light.
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