I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

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

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 grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

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