“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”

“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”

“A weakling is incapable of sincerity.”

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”

“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a mor...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”