“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy”

“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction”

“To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else”

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”

“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live”

“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains”