I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.