Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

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...

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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...

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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

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

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to...

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to...

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy...

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy...

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.