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

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

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

Semua angin baik, asalkan mereka mendorong kita.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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

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

What is really beautiful must always be true.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

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

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Di depan matanya setiap orang memiliki tujuan yang dia kejar sampai mati; tetapi bagi banyak orang tujuan ini adalah bulu yang mereka tiup di depan mereka di udara.

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

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.