With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Throwing dirt at a diamond does not diminish its value.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked.

Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.

We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talents.

The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.