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A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop. - [Fools] A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. - [Intellect] A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship. - [Discord] A monarchy tempered by songs. - [France] Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest. - [Conquest] Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever. - [Calumny] Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. - [Fame] Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.] - [Providence] Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich. - [Fashion] Change, change,--we all covet change. - [Novelty] Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible. - [Contempt] Conviction is the conscience of the mind. - [Conviction] Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. - [Covetousness] Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. - [Opportunity] Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a l'eau-rose?] - to Marmotel, who regretted the excesses of the Revolution [Revolution] Egotism is the tongue of vanity. - [Egotism] False modesty is the most decent of all falsehoods. - [Falsehood] France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. [Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, temperee par des chansons.] - quoted by [France] He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread. - [Friendship] If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet. - [Dress] In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned. - [Art] It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance. - [Gossip] Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. - [Life] Love is more pleasing than marriage, because romances are more amusing than history. - [Love] Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not. - [Esteem] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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