He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.
A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.
Women of the world crave excitement.
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
Remorse turns us against ourselves.
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
Be my brother or I will kill you.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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