Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.