It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.