Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait.
Le char de la civilisation, semblable à celui de l'idole de Jaggernaut, à peine retardé par un cœur moins facile à broyer que les autres et qui enraye sa roue, l'a brisé bientôt et continue sa marche...
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man’s improvement in himself.
He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert Maxence Gilet
Existe un algo grande y espantoso en el suicidio. Las caídas de muchas personas no son peligrosas, son como las de los niños, que caen tan a ras del suelo que no se hacen daño; mas cuando un gran homb...
En toute situation, les femmes ont plus de causes de douleur que n’en a l’homme, et souffrent plus que lui. L’homme a sa force et l’exercice de la puissance; il agit, il va, il s’occupe, il pense, il...
El error de los hombres superiores es gastar los años de su juventud en hacerse dignos de la estimación de los demás.
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
Basta a un joven encontrar una mujer que no le ama o que le quiere demasiado para que su vida quede desordenada. La felicidad engulle nuestras fuerzas como el infortunio mata nuestras virtudes.
There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.
Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair.
You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertil...
Yes,' Montriveau went on in an unsteady voice, 'this Catholic faith to which you wish to convert me is a lie that men make for themselves; hope is a lie at the expense of the future; pride, a lie betw...
Today, when everything is intellectual competition, a man must be capable of sitting in his chair at a desk for forty-eight hours straight just as a general had to sit for two days in his saddle on ho...
Si les Français ont autant de répugnance que les Anglais ont de propension pour les voyages, peut-être les Français et les Anglais ont-ils raison de part et d'autre. On trouve partout quelque chose de...
My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you!