The cliche is dead poetry.

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

The cliche is dead poetry.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.