The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.