A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.