Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.