I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.