If laws and principles were fixed and invariable, nations would not change them as readily as we change our shirts.
If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye!
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.
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
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.
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.
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty re...
J’ai été enterré sous les morts ; mais, maintenant, je suis enterré sous des vivants, sous des actes, sous des faits, sous la société tout entière, qui veut me faire rentrer sous terre!
All is true, - so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart.
A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its se...
O ilk günden beri güneş daha az sıcak, daha az aydınlık, gece daha karanlık oldu; hareket hızını yitirdi, düşüncelere bir ağırlık geldi. Bazı insanları toprağa gömeriz, ama öyle insanlar vardır ki onl...
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.