141 quotes found
“True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
“I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.”
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those invo...”
“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
“We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation”
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.”
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
“In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.”
“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
“Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.”
