A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.