1. “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
2. “Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.”
3. “Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”
4. “The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”
5. “Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”
6. “Th first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.”
7. “All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
8. “Only great minds can afford a simple style.”
9. “The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.”
10. “Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
11. “Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.”
12. “There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
13. “Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”
14. “Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.”
15. “A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”
16. “The only way of touching a heart is to wound it.”
17. “The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.”
18. “Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will.”
19. “Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.”
20. “Misery destroys judgement.”
