“Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.”

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Unconditional love is all you have. You can’t overdose on love, you never can. It’s a beautiful thing.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

One must labor for beauty as for bread.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.