The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
Spring appears and we are once more children.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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