They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.