Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Every true passion thinks only of itself.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.