I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other - Michel de Montaigne

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.

Whatever it be, whether art or nature, that has inscribed in us this condition of living by reference to others, it does us much more harm than good. We defraud ourselves out of what is actually useful to us in order to make appearances conform to common opinion. We care less about the real truth of our inner selves than about how we are known to the public.