Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.