You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.
For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.
O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
