“To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.” 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos

The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money. Beware of Pity

As there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world. Misanthropy arises from too great confidence of inexperience; you trust a man and think him altogether true and good and faithful, and then in a little while he turns out to be false and knavish; and then another and another, and when this has happened several times to a man, especially within the circle of his most trusted friends, as he deems them, and he has often quarreled with them, he at last hates all men, and believes that no one has any good in him at all. ...The reason is that a man, having to deal with other men, has no knowledge of them; for if he had knowledge he would have known the true state of the case, that few are the good and few the evil, and that the great majority are in the interval between them. The Trials Of Socrates

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. Autumn Leaves