The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.