"There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it …"

"Let them respect my convictions, and I will respect theirs!"

"You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form t…"

"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt."

"There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life…"

"I have come to the conclusion that the bed comprehends our whole life; for we were born in it, we live in it, and we …"

"I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immort…"

"Let us protest and let us be angry, let us be indignant, or let us be enthusiastic, Schopenhauer has marked humanity …"

"Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains th…"

"Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are …"