It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. |
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 |
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one |
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. |
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. |
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. |
Only great minds can afford a simple style. |
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions. |
People happy in love have an air of intensity |
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. |
Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, ... Le Rouge et le noir. |
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness |
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. |
She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? |