Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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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...

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

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...

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.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

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...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or...

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or...

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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...

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

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

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...

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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

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

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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

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

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

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