The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

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

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.