Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!