For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.