Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.