How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.