Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.