These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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.

My genius is in my nostrils.