Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.
Try something different. Surrender.
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.