The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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

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

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.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

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.

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...

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

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

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

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

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...

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.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.