I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
The difference breeds hatred.
I see but one rule: to be clear.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
Our true passions are selfish.
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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