Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.