Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.