What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.