All know the way; few actually walk it.
-Bodhidharma
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
-Socrates
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
-Thomas Paine
Wise do not believe that anyone does wrong willingly but only unwillingly out of ignorance.
-Socrates
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labour of choice.
-George Eliot
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.