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.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

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

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.