All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

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 secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.