What we don't understand we don't possess.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

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

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.