Alfred de Musset Quote

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: "I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I feel so much pleasure"; and they wear away their lives on that grindstone.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I ...

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I ...

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I ...

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I ...