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Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.
Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
Every man carries the entire form of human condition.
He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Every man has within himself the entire human condition
Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.
I would have every man write what he knows and no more.
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.
Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.
I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.