Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.