The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.