... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

When reason fails, the devil helps!

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.