Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Never regret thy fall$$$<br>O Icarus of the fearless flight<br>For the greatest tragedy of them all<br>Is never to feel the burning light.

After the first glass$$$ you see things as you wish they were. After the second$$$ you see things as they are not. Finally$$$ you see things as they really are$$$ and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion$$$ enmity$$$ worship$$$ love$$$ but no friendship.