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

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

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

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.
[Happiness]

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.


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