If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.