Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults o….

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?.

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling w….

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints..

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves..

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time ….

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought..

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, an….

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything..

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion..

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity..

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way..

Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all….

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur..

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet..

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women..

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own..

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover..

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling..

In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him..

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival..