There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

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