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

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

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.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Beauty is the promise of happiness

Beauty is the promise of happiness

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.

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a...

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

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.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.