自己
The more you express yourself, the more you betray yourself.
A nation's destiny is in its own hands.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
L'amour est comme un arbre: il croît de lui-même, s'enracine profondément dans notre être.
L'amour est comme un arbre: il pousse de lui-même, jette profondément ses racines dans tout notre être.
L'amour, c'est la seule passion qui se paye d'une monnaie qu'elle fabrique elle-même.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
The only real freedom is the freedom to be yourself.
The world is a mirror, and we see in it what we are.
The night is a world lit by itself.
The best way to see divine light is to put out your own candle.
The only real happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.