As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

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

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.