The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.