93 Quotes by Alfred De Musset

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.

I have come too late into a world too old.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

The return makes one love the farewell.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.