“Let thy mind's end be thy life's end, and let thy life's end be the glory of God.”

Linking a person’s highest purpose with a religiously directed life · Enchiridion, 1640 (aphorism)

• Faith
• Mortality

“The way to be safe is never to be secure.”

A paradoxical reminder that complacency can undermine safety · Enchiridion, 1640 (aphorism)

• Mortality
• Truth

“Be not too much in love with thine own opinions.”

Counselling intellectual humility and openness to correction · Enchiridion, 1640 (aphorism)

• Friendship
• Truth

“Let the fear of a danger be a greater danger to thee than the danger itself.”

Warning that anxious anticipation can become more damaging than the threatened harm · Enchiridion, 1640 (aphorism)

• Fear
• Truth

“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”

Presenting anger as a self-inflicted response to other people’s failings · Enchiridion, 1640 (aphorism)

• Despair
• Truth