As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.