Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.