To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.