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

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

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

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or...

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or...

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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.

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

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

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

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

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

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...

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...

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.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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