I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.