Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living..

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest..

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject..

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts..

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce..

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred..

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered..

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool..

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter..

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.].

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all..

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know..

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it….

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to ha….

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love..

Methods are the masters of masters..

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour..

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government..

It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.].

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for..

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man..