We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!
Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
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