How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

I was too young to know how to love her.

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind