A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
Reading brings us unknown friends
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
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