The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.