Live as if you were eternal.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.