A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.