It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don’t deserve to succeed.
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
What one doesn’t understand one doesn’t possess.
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
For that is love’s nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.
You don’t love if you don’t take the beloved’s faults for virtues.
In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn’t seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.