Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
As a rule, only the poor are generous.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
There are words which cut like steel.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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