“The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.”

“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.”

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

''Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.''

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.