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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,...

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

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

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them...

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

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

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

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the...

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the...

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Our true passions are selfish.

Our true passions are selfish.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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...

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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...

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

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...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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.

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.