As a rule, only the poor are generous..

Life cannot go on without much forgetting..

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotenc….

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival..

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich..

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things..

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions..

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she..

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: h….

Necessity is often the spur to genius..

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever w….

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voi….

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness..

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future..

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance..

Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his….

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling ….

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things..

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and….