In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.
Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.
Resignation is a daily suicide.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
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