To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.