Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

Better is the enemy of good.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.