Build no barricades when no one attacks you. Don't excite tempests of heart and conscience merely to pacify your conscience and quiet your heart, now ruffled only by a tiny breeze.
We women never care about anything that no one else will take.
The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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...
Se ciascuno pensa solo a se stesso e non si fida che di se stesso, come volete che ci sia coraggio civile, dal momento che questa virtù si basa sulla rinuncia a se stessi? Coraggio civile e coraggio m...
Quelque mal que l'on te dise dumonde, crois−le ! il n'y a pas de Juvénal qui puisse en peindre l'horreur couverte d'or et de pierreries.
My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you!
Misfortune is a kind of talisman whose virtue consists in its power to confirm our original nature; in some men it increases their distrust and malignancy, just as it improves the goodness of those wh...
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...
Le bonheur est la poésie des femmes.
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
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...
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.
A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.
Zor geçen günler vardır, dedim.-Ruhumu okudunuz, dedi. Peki ama, nasıl?- O kadar çok bakımlardan birbirimize benziyoruz ki! diye karşılık verdim. Acı çekmek için de, zevk duymak için de imtiyazlı yara...
If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
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.