He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.