We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Pension
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel forgiv...
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...
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.
Le monde est un bourbier, tâchons de rester sur les hauteurs.
If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him . . . down to hell.
Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
Başkalarının mutluluğu, artık mutlu olamayacakların sevinci olur.
Believe everything you hear said of the world nothing is too impossibly bad.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.
If we could picture the thoughts of those who stand about a deathbed, what fearful sights should we not see? Money is always the motive-spring of the schemes elaborated, of all the plans that are made...
If laws and principles were fixed and invariable, nations would not change them as readily as we change our shirts.
I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.