All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
What is really beautiful must always be true.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
The difference breeds hatred.
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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