Quotes by Saint Basil

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
• Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.