I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.