Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?