It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.