There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity