The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent |
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. |
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. |
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. |
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. |
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly |
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears |
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. |
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. |
This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. |
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. |
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. |
To describe happiness is to diminish it. |
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. |
Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing? |