Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.