Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief |
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities. |
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. |
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. |
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. |
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream. |
Modesty is the conscience of the body. |
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. |
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. |
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. |
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself |
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. |
One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover. |
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. |
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. |