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

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.