Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.