I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.