It Is That We Are Never So Defenseless Against

“Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.”

“Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”

“Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”