A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride..

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Women prefer emotions to reasoning..

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

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

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

Spring appears and we are once more children..

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

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

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

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

Only great minds can afford a simple style..

The difference breeds hatred..