Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.