It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

Those who create are hard of heart.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.