Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.