Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

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

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.