Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Blood is a very special juice.

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.