We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is.

Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with read more

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and read more

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.