The single sin is less of a problem than the good reasons for it.
The tyrant puts down his own rebellion, everywhere.
On what is valuable thieves and the law agree.
God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.
Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.
Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.
Value yourself according to the burdens you carry, and you will find everything a burden.
Suppose you had to remember to beat your heart, contract in exact sequence the muscles you use for every step. … Conservatism comes out of the body, the sense of many things being done for us that any attempt to re-think, or even make conscious, would fatally disrupt.
If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does.
The viruses that co-opt the machinery of our cells; the stories we allow to enter and explain us.
Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?
The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.
The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.