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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
The difference breeds hatred.
Our true passions are selfish.
I have a bad memory for facts.
I see but one rule: to be clear.
A good book is an event in my life.
Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Far less envy in America than in France.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
What is really beautiful must always be true.
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Spring appears and we are once more children.
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
