If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
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
I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succ
Has he written to you?”He writes frequently.”Shew me his letters this instant, I order you’; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.
To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
One can acquire everything in solitude but character.
If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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.
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.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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 one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.