The beloved woman radiates more charm than she has.
To love means to enjoy the pleasure of seeing and feeling with all your organs, and from as little a distance as possible, the being you love and who loves you.
Love is a pleasant flower, but we must have the courage to pick it from the edge of a precipice.
Love is the only passion that pays with the same coin that it mints itself.
A love like Werter's opens the soul to all arts, to all romantic impressions, to moonlight, to the charm of the forest, to the beauty of painting, to everything sublime.
Lovers often doubt the things they trust most.
Mademoiselle de Sommeri, being caught in the act by her lover, denied this fact. When her lover became angry, she said, "Now I see that you no longer love me, because you believe more in what you see than in what I say."
The world will be fairer when it is more righteous.
A modern building will no longer be fashionable in ten years and will become old. She will be even less pleasing to the eye in two hundred years' time, when fashions will change.
My happiness would be complete if it were not for a victory - here is the happiness of a fool.
You can know everything but yourself.
A man can say almost nothing about what is going on in the heart of a tender woman. With a coquette things are different: sensitivity and vanity are our own and ourselves.
We only like jealousy from those we can be jealous of.
We must not discount anything that can make us great.
It is not enough to have talent. The common opinion of contemporaries must show attraction to the creative efforts of this talent.
The politician must be patient and restrain his indignation.
Musical notation is just the art of writing down some ideas. It is important to have these ideas.
We can only judge the strength of a passion by comparing it with the strength of the passion we have offered as a sacrifice.
The greatest advantage of the mind is that it assures them, respect in old age.
Man cannot be talented in everything.
It takes very little hope for love to be born. In a little while hope may disappear, but love has already been born.
A writer needs the same courage as a soldier. The writer needs to think about criticism as little as the soldier needs to think about the hospital.
Until I loved, I was insignificant precisely because I sometimes wanted to consider myself great.
When he falls in love, the rational man no longer sees anything as he really is... An ordinary woman largely becomes unrecognizable and transforms into an exceptional being.
The cause of almost all the unpleasantness that happens to us in life lies in the fact that we misperceive the things around us. Therefore, thorough knowledge of people and things brings us closest to happiness.
The ability to write correctly does not make anyone a genius.
The rose is the mother of boredom.
The one who could not offer herself succeeds in selling herself.
The novel is a mirror with which you walk on a long road. It reflects either the clear sky or the dirty puddles and papers.
Romanticism is the art of giving the people such literary works as can, in the modern context of customs and beliefs, be able to cause maximum pleasure.