The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

I carry the bars within me.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.