How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.