A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Reason is not what decides love.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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