"Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"It is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."