People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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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...

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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 describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than 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.

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...

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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

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

What is really beautiful must always be true.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

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...

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.

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 more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

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

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...