Be the flame, not the moth.
One who makes no mistakes makes nothing
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.
I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.
Lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.
Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
The thing is to dazzle
Economy spoils pleasure
The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.
Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.
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I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.
I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
