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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood. - [Husbands] A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. - [Fools] A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - [Wisdom] All is wholesome in the absence of excess. - [Excess] All the power is with the sex that wears the beard. - [Beard] Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. - [Poets] Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. - [Debt] Every time I fill a vacant office I make ten malcontents and one ingrate. - quoting Louis XIV, in Siecle de Louis Quatorze [Politics] He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. - [Cooking] I have been speaking prose without knowing it for more than forty years. - [Prose] I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. - [Vice] I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married. - [Bachelors] It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. - [Behavior] It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. - [Right] It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. - [Inaction] One must eat to live, not live to eat. - [Eating] One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. - [Self-examination] Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety. - [Good Sense] Perfect reason avoids all extremes. - [Extremes] The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. - [Flattery] The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. - [Fortune] The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue. - [Difficulties] There is no rampart that will hold out against malice. - [Malice] To live without loving is not really to live. - [Love] We are easily fooled by that which we love. - [Deceit] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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