The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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 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.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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...

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

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...

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness...

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness...

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our...

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our...

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make...

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make...