Affreuse condition de l'homme ! Il n'y a pas un de ses bonheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque.
Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
¿No vivimos nosotros también de muertos? Pues ¿qué son las herencias?
Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps, the most powerful of all ties.
So an honest man is the common enemy.
She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues.
Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.
Le journalisme est un enfer, un abîme d'iniquités, de mensonges, de trahisons, que l'on ne peut traverser et d'où l'on ne peut sortir pur, que protégé comme Dante par le divin laurier de Virgile.
Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.
Christianity and monarchy are twin principles.
Bütün kötü günleri mutlu geçirilmiş bir tek gün silebilir.
Înclinarea spre lene - desfrâul sufletelor poetice.
There is something still more appalling than the ingratitude of daughters who have cast off their old father and wish that he were dead, and that is a rivalry between two sisters.
Adore à genoux quand on n'a pas pu l'enterrer sous la boue. La corruption est en force, le talent est rare. Ainsi, la corrup- tion est l'arme de la médiocrité qui abonde, et vous en sentirez partout l...
Women always persuade men they have made into sheep that they are lions with a will of iron.
There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is — an assemblage of fools and knaves.
There everything is tolerated: the government and the guillotine, religion and the cholera. You are always acceptable to this world, you will never be missed by it. What, then, is the dominating impul...
The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd hav...