To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Life is too short to learn German

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

The best revenge is to live well.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.