Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in fron...
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature...
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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