Misfortune does not help us to believe.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!