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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

To do my duty, I must obey God.