Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.
I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.
Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.
I am not deep, but I am very wide.
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
To speak of love is to make love.
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.
The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.
When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.
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