A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

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 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 more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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

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

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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.

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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...

Our true passions are selfish.

Our true passions are selfish.

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...