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

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

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!

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.