The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the cont...
No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a...
Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along: a strange but true quirk of behaviour, whose root is easily traced to t...
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Борьба имеет свою прелесть. Бороться - значит жить, пусть борьба приносит горе, пусть она ранит, - все лучше, чем беспросветный мрак отвращения, яд презрительной замкнутости, холод тех, кто отрекся от...
How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene.'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come bac...
Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.