Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.