The color of truth is gray.
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.