Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
Life is simply what out feelings do to us.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
The more you judge, the less you love.
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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