The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
I see but one rule: to be clear.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
Our true passions are selfish.
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.
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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.
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