 She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? |
| The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. |
| The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. |
| God's only excuse is that he does not exist. |
| The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. |
| Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion. |
| People happy in love have an air of intensity. |
| Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. |
| The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. |
| Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. |
| One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. |
| If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. |
| Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. |
| Friendship has its illusions no less than love. |
