Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.