Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.