The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Our true passions are selfish.
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.