Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.