Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.


Remy de Gourmont

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Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of ALDOUS HUXLEY Bear one another's burdens.
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Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade o...
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
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REMY DE GOURMONT
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REMY DE GOURMONT
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accom...
REMY DE GOURMONT
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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure ...
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In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be ind...
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The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
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The woman who loves always smells good
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Two elements are needed to form a truth -- a fact and an abstraction.
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last
REMY DE GOURMONT
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -no...
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
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DE MONTESQUIEU
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DE MONTESQUIEU
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb...
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
One can not be just if one is not humane.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS