Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Counsels and Maxims

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Candida

For after death, as they say, the genius of each individual, to whom he belonged in life, leads him to a certain place in which the dead are gathered together for judgment, whence they go into the world below, following the guide who is appointed to conduct them from this world to the other; and when they have there received their due and remained their time, another guide brings them back again after many revolutions of ages. The Trials Of Socrates

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. The Alchemist