Başkalarının mutluluğu, artık mutlu olamayacakların sevinci olur.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man.
Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.
In Paris extremes are made to meet by passion. Vice is constantly binding the rich to the poor, the great to the mean.
If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Вера в себя способна творить такие же чудеса, как вера в Господа Бога.
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
There is something noble as well as terrible about suicide. The downfall of many men is not dangerous, for they fall like children, too near the ground to do themselves harm. But when a great man brea...
The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished...
Suferinţa sfinţeşte totul.