Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
I see but one rule: to be clear.
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.