“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

“It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated...”

“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”

“How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?”

“They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.”

“Is it true, prince, that you once declared that "beauty would save the world"? Great Heaven! The prince says that beauty saves the world! And I declare that he only has such playful ideas because he's in love! Gentlemen, the prince is in love. I guessed it the moment he came in. Don't blush, prince; you make me sorry for you. What beauty saves the world? Colia told me that you are a zealous Christian; is it so? Colia says you call yourself a Christian.'The prince regarded him attentively, but said nothing.”