Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
We love because we love.
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
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