To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.