Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.