The battlefield on which the mind fights is more terrible than the battlefield on which it dies; the former is harder to plow than an ordinary plain.
A decent woman is one whom the lover is afraid to compromise.
Permanent work is the law of both art and life.
The truth is like a bitter drink with an unpleasant taste, but which restores your health.
Gratitude is shown by deeds.
The passion for collecting is the first phase of a mental disorder.
To retreat out of cowardice and fear is still considered a skillful maneuver today.
Indifference to the fair sex in old age is a punishment for the fact that man has known too much pleasure in his youth.
A jealous person really doubts not his wife, but himself.
Man's jealousy consists of an extreme selfishness, a pride taken by surprise, and an irritated false vanity.
One's beliefs are not displayed on the wall.
Self-love is a poison to friendship.
The family will always be the basis of society.
A mother's heart is an abyss in the depth of which forgiveness will always be found.
The strongest shocks in life heal us of small fears.
Miserliness begins where poverty ends.
Glory is the sun of the dead.
Glory is an unprofitable commodity. It is expensive and difficult to preserve.
Glory is a poison that is only useful in small doses.
Chance is the world's greatest novelist.
Morals are corrected by laughter.
Humiliating himself, an unhappy man only increases his unhappiness.
Perfect beauty is almost always marked by either coldness or stupidity.
To doubt God is to believe in Him.
The state of a bachelor is an antisocial state.
Socialism, which imagines itself as something new, is an old parricide. He has always killed his mother, the republic, and his sister, liberty.
Social depravity takes the form of the social environment in which it develops.
The means of performing an action merge with the results.
Style is the generation of ideas, not words.
Passion misjudges.