“It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

“It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone wemust appeal, and from Him alone expect mercy.”

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

“Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.”

“There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.”