People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.

How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze