"The world is satisfied with words: few care to dive beneath the surface."
"A pious man said: "If I ignored the existence of God, I would adore the sun and women.""
"To scoff at philosophy is to act as a true philosopher."
"The greatest satisfaction a woman can feel is to know that a man whom many other women love loves her alone."
"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."
"To speak of love begets love."
"What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe!"
"The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard farther than the loudest call of duty."
"People call eloquence the facility that some have in speaking alone and for a great length of time."
"Little things console us, because little things afflict us."
"All our dignity lies in our thoughts."
"How few friendships would be lasting if we knew what our best friends say of us in our absence."
"It is dangerous to say to the people that their laws are unjust, for they obey them only because they believe them just."
"Love has no age: it is always in birth."
"Love is a duel with pins."
"The heart has its reasons that reason cannot know."
"Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy. He does not like to hear the truth, and he shuns telling it."
"If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would have been changed."
"Nature tempts us continually, but we are not responsible for the sin, unless our reasoning gives its consent."
"The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God."
"Nature tempts us continually, but we are not responsible for the sin, unless our reasoning gives its consent."
"The heart has its reasons that reason cannot know."
"The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard farther than the loudest call of duty."
"To speak of love begets love."
"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."