A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.