“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.”

“When we talk about books…we are talking about our approximate recollections of books… What we preserve of the books we read—whether we take notes or not, and even if we sincerely believe we remember them faithfully—is in truth no more than a few fragments afloat, like so many islands, on an ocean of oblivion…We do not retain in memory complete books identical to the books remembered by everyone else, but rather fragments surviving from partial readings, frequently fused together and further recast by our private fantasies. … What we take to be the books we have read is in fact an anomalous accumulation of fragments of texts, reworked by our imagination and unrelated to the books of others, even if these books are materially identical to ones we have held in our hands.”

“Toujours aimer, toujours souffrir, toujours mourir.”

“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”

“Al vencer sin obstáculos se triunfa sin gloria”

“Laksanakanlah kewajiban anda sebaik-baiknya, selebihnya serahkan kepada Tuhan.”

“Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.”