There is nothing original; all is reflected light.
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.