But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.