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| A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers | | Mankind | |
| A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. | | Uncategorized | |
| A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows | | Men and Women | |
| All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate | | Passion | |
| All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed. | | Uncategorized | |
| An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought. | | Uncategorized | |
| At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing. | | Uncategorized | |
| Chance is a nickname of Providence | | Chance | |
| Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich | | Fashion | |
| Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. | | Action; Life | |
| Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. | | Uncategorized | |
| I would say of metaphysicians what Scaliger said of the Basques: they are said to understand each other, but I do not believe it | | Uncategorized | |
| If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet | | Uncategorized | |
| In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity | | Falsehood; Love; Truth | |
| It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate | | Uncategorized | |
| It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can be happy in this world | | Happiness | |
| Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history | | Love | |
| Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins. | | Love | |
