A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love..

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us..

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God..

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few..

The difference breeds hatred..

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels..

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process..

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion..

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us..

Women prefer emotions to reasoning..

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained..

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in..

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same..

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom..

One can acquire everything in solitude except character..

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first.

Spring appears and we are once more children..

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly..

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind..

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul..

Only great minds can afford a simple style..