"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."

"How can I be a good man if I don't know how to be a bad one?"

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."

"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy."

"How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?"