What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.