Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.