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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.