In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.