Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.