Happiness visits us in various forms and is very subtle, but I have seen happiness more often among children and in the small houses of peasants than in other places.
Only the ultimate wretch can find pleasure in undeserved praise.
Vanity is but the improper effort to gain fame before it is deserved.
Man's character has an influence on the happiness of other people, according to the benefit it can bring.
To teach man to respect justice, you must show him the results of justice.
The architectural aspect of a building that evokes in us feelings appropriate to its purpose is called style.
We must work, because work is the parent of pleasure.
In a marriage where there is no love, in less than two months everything turns bitter.
The beauty of love and passion lies not only in physical closeness, but especially in the last step taken towards it.
In the world of feelings, there is only one law - to make the one you love happy.
Anything can be acquired in solitude - except character.
The true art is to inculcate in men the beautiful ideas which teach us to sacrifice everything for the good of mankind.
We can say anything with our eyes. But at the same time, we can always refrain from looking, because her expression cannot be exactly repeated.
Lovers are beyond crazy when it comes to how to dress more beautifully. In the presence of her lover, the woman thinks about something completely different than the way he is dressed.
Any natural reason can cause upset.
Any revolt against a foreign aggressor is a legitimate thing and is the primary duty of any people.
When music is out of fashion, it does not become worse, but it no longer makes any impression on the simple hearts of young girls. And maybe we only liked her because she excited the hearts of young people.
Flexibility of mind can replace beauty.
The main quality of language is clarity.
Yes, half of life - namely the most beautiful half - remains hidden from the man who has not loved passionately.
Even the severity of the beloved woman is full of a charm that we cannot find in other women even in the happiest moments.
The point is not to learn to draw, but to learn to think.
The man in love has no friends.
God's only excuse is that he doesn't exist.
The beauty of women does not come from ignorance.
Painting is the art with which the painter depicts passion through facial features and body position.
When you love, you cannot drink the water of love from any other source than the one you find in the beloved source. In this case fidelity is a natural thing.
When we are sure that we have become the object of a woman's love, we are interested in how beautiful she is. When we don't know what's in her heart, we don't have time to think about the beauty of her face.
The ship of life is carried by all storms and winds, if it is not maintained by the "ballast" of work.
Beauty is but the promise of happiness.