We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.
Reach what you cannot
Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.