Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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