“Unless the gods deceive my mind,
That man is forging fetters for himself.”

“Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.”

“Happy the man, of mortals happiest he,
Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;
Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,
But lives at peace, within himself content;
In thought, or act, accountable to none
But to himself, and to the gods alone.”

“Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”

“Who can know heaven except by its gifts? and who can find out God, unless the man who is himself an emanation from God?”
Quis cœlum possit nisi cœli munere nosse? Et reperire deum nisi qui pars ipse deorum est?

“You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man—break the fetters!”

“Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!”

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

“My mind is as easy as the mind of any man in this world, as I am prepared to show before God and man.”

“If Seth had read Mark's mind, this was an excellent progression. If not, then Mark had deceived himself, and Seth had gone along and taken advantage of the deception. And if Seth was a personification of my subconscious, then this would be an excellent example of subconscious fraud.”