The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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