Alfred de Musset Men Quotations

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...

It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.