In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.