Alphabetarius

[One should] fear: lest through the face that is within, favor or human grace may weigh heavily, lest he may be snatched away by the appetite of praise, and what is shown outwardly is inwardly withered and marketed.

Beda

Flattery is a red sin, which, while inflaming the soul, always burns those ardent [in it] with its own fomentation.

Isidorus versus

The worst fox is the hidden detractor, if he is not the equally smooth flatterer, always.

Isidorus Gregorius Isidorus

Nothing is worse than hunger; sweet flattery often harms with dire poisons.

Helping, via Bernard
Isidorus

A sweet friend is a prudent counselor, a strong helper who in truth finds treasure.

Isidorus Isidorus

The donkey falls, and there is one who lifts him up; when the sinner falls, there is no one who helps.

To abhor, via Bernard
Isidorus

If you saw the souls of sinners, you would abhor them no less than the sores of lepers.

To walk, via Bernard
Isidorus

Walk everywhere so [carefully] that [if] an angel were to take your hand, you would not dare, in any corner, at any time, to be found by your angel Isidorus whom, by my presence, I would not dare [to offend].

Affliction, via Bernard
Isidorus

Just as thorns degenerate when they do not prick, so [do] riches if they do not afflict.

Isidorus Isidorus

If you wish to do penance, you must punish [and] afflict the members of your body, indicating it to yourself.

Isidorus Gregorius

No one attaches an eternal spiritual crown to merits, except through affliction.

[When] the concupiscence of the flesh is known, the servant of intention shall have to act.

These good things are done for the memory of evil things transacted, to revoke them so that while the time is known as cautious, the mind should not now rejoice incautiously in a good work.

Isidorus Isidorus

The good you do, as if in [God's] sight. Good is not done if, when it is avoided, it is desired too much; if it is frustrated, or if it comes [to be done] as an angel.

Isidorus

The exaction of [virtues] permits the lives of the religious.

Isidorus Gregorius Isidorus

If the Omnipotent takes away grace, what remains is what pleases Him, because it is [a work]. Always do some good so that the devil finds you occupied. It is always necessary to do good, for the hand that is used to doing [nothing] occupies the senses with the thought of evils.

Isidorus

What does it profit to have done what is licit and to work at what is not licit?

Dn'

Always be in an act, but in your mind give the King a rest, let the soul be full of the studies of wisdom and good thoughts; be prudent, never let the Lord be more remiss [with you] than more released.

Gu

Labor nourishes the good in men; labor is good. Isidore says: "Good is its own property; evil is its own."

versus apud poetum Ysopus

It profits the lamb itself to look at the end, to bear threats, I wish not to ignore the end. What nature denies, no one happily dares; God [denies] it himself.