Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.