“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”
“The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it”
“Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.”
“Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”
“When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?”