There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

The only joy in the world is to begin.