There are poets who feel and poets who express; the former are the happiest.
There are joys in every form of creation: the idea is to know how to gather the good where you find it.
A woman who laughs at her husband can no longer love him.
Cruelty and fear shake hands.
Life is a succession of all kinds of combinations; they must be studied and controlled to keep them always in an advantageous form.
Envy is one of the most effective components of hatred.
The task of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. We must capture the mind, the meaning, the appearance of things and beings.
A married woman is a slave whom you must know how to place on a throne.
The ideal beauty, the most charming appearance has no value if no one admires it.
Ideas can only be neutralized by ideas.
The idea is superior to the fact.
Art is the garment of a nation.
A true scientist is a dreamer, and he who is not a dreamer calls himself a practical man.
Each night must have its own menu.
How sweet are critical remarks from the lips of friends; believe in them; they grieve you, for there is no doubt that they are right, but they cause you no pain.
Slander is indifferent to little people.
The key to any science is a question mark.
When a woman is too old to please men, she turns to God.
When we read a book, our sense of truth tells us, "This is a lie!" - at every incorrect detail. If this sense speaks to us too often and to all of us, it means that the book in question does not have and will not have any value. The secret of universal and eternal success lies in truthfulness.
When a man has been sick for a long time, he becomes more skilled than the doctor himself, and begins to understand his illness, which does not always happen with honest doctors.
When a man boasts that he will not change his beliefs, he obliges himself to walk the straight line all the time, we are dealing with an idiot who believes in his own infallibility. There are no principles, only happenstance; there are no laws - only circumstances; a man of scope adapts to events and circumstances in order to dominate them.
He who is everywhere finds no interest in his person anywhere.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, because it is more difficult to be witty every day than to joke once in a while.
Flattery never springs from big souls, it is part of small souls, who know how to make themselves even smaller in order to enter the life of an important person, to whom they are attracted.
Love is the fool's only possibility to grow in his eyes.
Love is the only passion that recognizes neither the past nor the future.
Love is a remarkable counterfeiter of money, always turning not only trifle into gold, but often gold into brass.
To a nature of high moral standing, love is like the Sun to the Earth.
Love unites in itself all good human qualities.
Love endures domestic quarrels so hard that for enduring happiness mutually outstanding qualities must be found.