The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'