In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.