“Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble”
“Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning”
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul”
“There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan”
“I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water”
“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt”
“Human nature is above all things lazy”