Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.