Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

Nothing about me surprises me.

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.