Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
Spring appears and we are once more children.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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.
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.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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