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