I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.