There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.