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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.
Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.
God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.