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.

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.

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.