To describe happiness is to diminish it.
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.