The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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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 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 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 pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears

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...

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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...

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

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