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

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.