The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.