He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.