The world either breaks or hardens the heart.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last.
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
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