It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of
himself, can end sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, enjoy them and dominate them.
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.
I can't aboid detesting my relatives. I suppose it derives from the fact that no one can stand our having someone else's flaws.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are! Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands!
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect: simply a confession of failures.
How exaggerated is the importance of faith! Even in love it is but physiological, indipendently from will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not: old men want to be faithless and cannot.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know loves tragedies.
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.