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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Marriage is the tomb of love.

economy spoils pleasure

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[.

Be the flame, not the moth.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

The thing is to dazzle

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

I am writing My Life so that I may laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

Youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.