Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.