The world is full of contradiction.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.