Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.