Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.