A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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