No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.
The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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