A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?