The less we love a woman, the more easily we please her.

Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

The supreme elegance is to be a good man.

-- Victor Hugo

The memory of the heart eliminates bad memories and magnifies the good ones.

-- Gabriel García Márquez

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

-- William Shakespeare

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu