Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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.