For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.