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

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.