"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." The Analects of Confucius

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. Ecce Homo

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. The Picture of Dorian Gray

I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate. Demian