Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.