Arthur Schopenhauer
View AuthorEnvy in men shows how unhappy they feel, and their constant attention to what others do or fail to do shows how bored they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
View AuthorFriends are usually considered sincere; enemies truly are: for this reason, it is excellent advice to take advantage of all their criticisms to get to know ourselves a little better, it's similar to using a bitter medicine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
View AuthorNo one is truly worthy of envy.
Walter Scott
View AuthorSelf-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorTo love hurts. It's like giving yourself up to be skinned and knowing that at any moment the other person could leave taking your skin with them.
Bruce Springsteen
View AuthorFriendship prevents you from slipping into the abyss.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorWomen never measure sacrifices; neither their own, nor those of others.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorLove is the story of women's lives and an episode in men's.
Germaine de Staël
View AuthorWhen a friend realizes that we need them urgently, they always lose their cordiality.
John Steinbeck
View AuthorUnder his cowardly shell, man aspires to goodness and wants to be loved. If he takes the path of vice, it is because he believed he was taking a shortcut that would lead him to love.
Stendhal
View AuthorLove is a beautiful flower, but one must have the courage to go and pick it at the edge of a precipice.
Stendhal
View AuthorFor a lover, there are no longer any friends.