If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

In art, as in love, instinct is enough.

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.