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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. - [Admiration] After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. - [Misfortune] Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes. - [Eyes] Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters. - [Lovers] All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept. - [Falsehood] All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow. - [Misfortune] Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret. - [Happiness : Marriage] Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes. - [Wives] An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity. - [Timidity] An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. - [Wives] Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival. - [Love] Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely? - [Poets] Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. - [Art] As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. - [Generosity] As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural. - [Secrecy] At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise. - [Potential] Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration. - [Love] Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter. - [Bankers] Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. - [Beauty : Despotism : Power] Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - [Fortune] By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions. - [Women] By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct. - [Sacrifice] By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate. - [Self-resignation] Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences. - [Marriage : Occupations] Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera. - [Charity] Displaying page 2 of 14 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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