A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), wh….

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure..

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the l….

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature..

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders..

What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the governme….

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinc….

You may imitate, but never counterfeit..

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain..

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we….

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary..

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and ….

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing..

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carr….

Life is simply what out feelings do to us..

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman..

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife..

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool..

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?.

At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of h….

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the drop….