Hope is only the love of life.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Hope is only the love of life.

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

True humility is contentment.

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.