Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Find your happiness in yourself.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.