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

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.

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

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.