Nothing is slower than the actual birth of human.
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.
“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.