I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

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