He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.