The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.