As a rule, only the poor are generous.
Pity is woman's sweetest charm.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
The more you judge, the less you love.
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
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