The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.
Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.
A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.
The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
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