I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

You are Beautiful when you are happy

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Those whom the gods love grow young.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.