All happiness depends on courage and work.
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
In order not to make him a fixed idea, a regret, a struggle,—three things which poison life.
You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertil...
What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?
True love rules especially through memory.
Today, when everything is intellectual competition, a man must be capable of sitting in his chair at a desk for forty-eight hours straight just as a general had to sit for two days in his saddle on ho...
The region is a desert of stones, a solitude with a character of its own, an arid spot, which could only be inhabited by beings who had either attained to absolute nullity, or were gifted with some ab...
Retrouver Paris! savez-vous ce que c'est, ô Parisiens?
Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée.
Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.
Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.
Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait.
Il ya toute une vie dans une heure d'amour.
I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man’s improvement in himself.
He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert Maxence Gilet
En toute situation, les femmes ont plus de causes de douleur que n’en a l’homme, et souffrent plus que lui. L’homme a sa force et l’exercice de la puissance; il agit, il va, il s’occupe, il pense, il...