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.
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.
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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 idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
I see but one rule: to be clear.
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