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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.
The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.
The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.