It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

In the end one only experiences oneself.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.