Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
Reading brings us unknown friends
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.
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.
Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
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.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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.
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
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.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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.
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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.
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