Only fools don't contradict themselves
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.