The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him?...
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Evil often triumphs but never conquers.
We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call h...
What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
At first we hope too much later on not enough.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade: today it is the reverse.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.
Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.