[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.