“They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.”

“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”

“So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas - it loves to flyway - let my pride then fly with my folly.”

“What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue.”

“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”

“Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.”

“All beings so far have created something beyond themselves”