It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.