“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage, he won't encounter many rivals.”

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”

“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”

“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice”

“Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.”