There is neither fortune nor misfortune in the world, but the comparison of one state with another, that is all. Only the one who has experienced the height of misfortune can feel supreme happiness. It is necessary to have wanted to die, my friend, to know how good and beautiful life is.
When unbridled love enters the heart, it gnaws away at all other feelings; it lives at the expense of honor, faith, and the given word.
Everything fits in the brief. Small is the child and contains the man; narrow is the brain and shelters the thought; the eye is no more than a point and spans leagues.
We believe, above all because it is easier to believe than to doubt, and also because faith is the sister of hope and charity.
Mothers always forgive: they have come into the world for that.