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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally