It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.