"There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever."

"The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising."

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more."

"The sum of all villainies is to deceive oneself."

"Nothing is so intoxicating as the first taste of freedom."