It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.