We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.