What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

I don’t count life as life without love