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The thing is to dazzle
economy spoils pleasure
I don't conquer, I submit.
Be the flame, not the moth.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
Love is three quarters curiosity.
[Matrimony] is the grave of love.
one who makes no mistakes makes nothing
Those who do not love life do not deserve it.
Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]
A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.
When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.
Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.
If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.
Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.
The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.
We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.
[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.
The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.
Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.
We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.
After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.