I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Our true passions are selfish.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.