To the mean all becomes mean.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.