What is really beautiful must always be true.

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

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

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

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 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.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness

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...

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...

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...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Our true passions are selfish.

Our true passions are selfish.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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...

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

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

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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...

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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.

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...