The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.