Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Quote by Stendhal

Topics: Hypocrisy Quotes, Mathematics Quotes

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is...

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is...

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something...

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something...

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for...

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for...

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a...

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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

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