Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.