I do not love men: I love what devours them.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.