Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.