Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.