One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.