Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.