If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

• This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
• The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
• The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
• Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
• Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
• True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
• All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
• Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
• In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
• To describe happiness is to diminish it.