Quotes

Friendship is superior to kinship, because goodwill can be taken away from kinship, but not from friendship.

How little it takes to be happy, and a hundred times less to suffer forever.

Faithful as death are loves without hope!

The greatest immorality is stupidity.

Imagined dangers are the deepest, and imagined enemies are the most bloodthirsty.

A woman knows well that she is weak only when she loves.

A man falls in love by looking at a woman, and a woman most often falls in love by listening to a man.

Love makes more people unhappy than happy, and more misery than joy.

In love one feels more than one should, suffers more than one thinks, dreams more than one lives, and says even what one does not believe oneself.

Many people complain that their whole life goes by in searching for the meaning of life, which, if it exists at all, lies nowhere else but in the search itself.

Great wisdom lies at the bottom of a dark abyss; and only the maddest men have spoken the deepest words.

Freedom is madness; and only madmen are free.