To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.