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.
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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.
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
Spring appears and we are once more children.
The difference breeds hatred.
What is really beautiful must always be true.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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