Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.