Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

Either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone.

If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.