Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.