Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
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.