Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.