“Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.”
“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
“The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.”
“Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not -- there is no weakness in that.”
“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”
“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless”