Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.