There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.