Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.