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

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

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

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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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