The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed..

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival..

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their ….

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier..

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims..

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents..

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light..

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of ….

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical..

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman..

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating..

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to lif….

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows..

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they p….

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature..

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word..

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to….

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious..

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is alwa….

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow..