I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.