When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

When the passions become masters, they are vices

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden