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

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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...

Our true passions are selfish.

Our true passions are selfish.

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...

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Beauty is the promise of happiness

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...

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

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...

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...

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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