Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss..

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest….

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is….

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tosse….

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge..

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate de….

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it..

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit..

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it..

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself..

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it..

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three..

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest..

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever..

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second phi….

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompan….

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates..

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall..

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away..

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence..

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never..