The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
