Mais la grande marque d'amour, c'est d'être soumis aux volontés de celle qu'on aime.
Quand on sait entendre, on parle toujours bien.
La curiosité naît de la jalousie
Il faut qu'il ait tué bien des gens pour s'être fait si riche.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
It’s a veritable Tower of Babylon, The way you people babble on.
It is not alone what we do but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expir...
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.
Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;
A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are neve...
I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
