People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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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.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

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.

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.

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,...

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...

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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 man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

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...

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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.

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...