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.
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.
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.
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.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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.
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
What is really beautiful must always be true.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Spring appears and we are once more children.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
The difference breeds hatred.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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.
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