Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

Prayer is the life of the soul.