“Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear your requests?”

“Only sick music makes money today.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend”

“Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!”

“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.”

“It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.”