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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.