The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.