I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.