Were I to buy this life of pleasure and this only chance at happiness with a few little dangers, where would be the harm? And woul...dn't it still be fortunate to find a weak excuse to give her proof of my love?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hypocrisy repels me even in love, and our great women aim for too lofty a performance. Napoleon has given them some ideas of moral...s and constancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that ten...derness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impo...ssible to ignore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious ...of sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamati...ons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The taste for freedom, the fashion and cult of happiness of the majority, that the nineteenth century is infatuated with was only ...a heresy in his eyes that would pass like others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »