“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”
“At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.”
“Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.”
“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”
“If someone remarks: "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.”
“Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…”