Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.