1783 – 1842 • French • Writer
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
