The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.