God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
A good book is an event in my life.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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.
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.
Our true passions are selfish.
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.