Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
