All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.