Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any