If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
From Stendhal
Our true passions are selfish.
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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