I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

When women love us they forgive us everything even our crimes, when they do not love us they give us credit for nothing not even our virtues.

There is a courtesy of the heart, it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Death is easier than a wretched life, and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

One has to pay dearly for immortality, one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.

O my God what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

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