The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
We must have a passion in life.
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.