There Is Nothing Stronger Than Gentleness

“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.”

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”

“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.”

All cruelty springs from weakness