Florentius

“If before the severe judge idle speech is reprehended, how much more that which is hurtful. Consider, then, how damnable those words be, which proceed of malice, when that talk shall be punished which proceedeth only from idleness.”
― Pope Gregory I, The Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great

“Joan of Arc was not stuck at the cross-roads, either by rejecting all the paths like Tolstoy or by accepting them all like Nietzsche. She chose a path, and went down it like a thunderbolt.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“To insure the stability of imperial power, it is sufficient for an emperor to serve God with reverence.”
― Hermais Sozomen, The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen: From AD 324 to AD 425

“[S]ome sins are forgiven in this world, and some other may be pardoned in the next: for that which is denied concerning one sin, is consequently understood to be granted touching some other.”
― Pope Gregory I, The Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great