When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.