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

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.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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

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.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked