A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.