You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
Love knows nothing of modesty.
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.
The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
Vivacity is the health of the spirit.
The union of a want and a sentiment.
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
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