“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
