Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives