When fear grips you in the face of evil, you already begin to feel the evil of fear.
Only the sweet secret gives charm to love!
Love of elegant literature is incompatible with zeal for work.
Can peace and love coexist in the same heart?
We must by no means confound ordinary criticism, which is one of the noblest aims of art, with the infamous satire directed against men: the former has the advantage of correcting without insulting.
The most guilty are also the most generous - this is the general rule.
Our wives think that if they love us, that means everything. They have got this into their heads, and they love so much, so much (if they really love) and are so attentive, so helpful, always and in all situations, that one day, to your great astonishment, instead of feeling happiness again, you begin to feel satiety. If we will look elsewhere for that pleasure that we do not find at home, it is because our wives do not possess the art to a sufficient extent to maintain in us the attraction to love each time in a different way, to revive.. .the charm of possession through the charm of diversity.
Heaven always protects innocence!
It is not without reason that women's fidelity has been given so much importance! The good and bad in society is influenced by their behavior. Heaven or hell in the family is caused by that gossip that circulates about women, and this gossip depends only on themselves.
For the family, the expulsion of the scoundrel from her bosom is a precious thing.
Ah, the woman!... weak and treacherous creature!
Having all kinds of possessions is not enough. To be satisfied with possession: this is what happiness means.
A habit is often an evil.
He is just honest enough not to deserve to be hanged.
Oh, these women! If you want the most innocent of them to learn cunning, lock her up somewhere.
We drink when we're not thirsty and make love all the time - that's the only thing that makes us different from other animals.
In my opinion, if the superior does us no harm, it is already a considerable benefit.
Politics is the art of creating facts and subjugating people and situations to you, like a game. Her goal is profit, and the way - intrigue... Only honesty can withstand her.
Vices and abuses do not change, but take a thousand forms, masking dominant habits; breaking this mask and showing them in the light of reality - this is the noble task of the man who deals with the theater.
Before I told you everything and now I hide nothing from you.
To pretend that you do not know what is known to everyone, and to know what no one knows; to pretend that you hear what is not clear to anyone and that you do not hear what everyone hears; it is important to pretend that you can surpass yourself: and you often make a great mystery out of what, in fact, is not one; locking yourself in your own office just to sharpen your quill and look pensive while the wind blows through your head; is it bad, is it, or is it good to deceive anyone, to favor slanderers and feed traitors, to melt wax seals, intercept letters, and endeavor to justify the poverty of the means by the importance of the end. This is what politics means...
Nature told the woman: be beautiful if you can, wise if you want, but you must be rational.
The pleasant disorder of joy never leads to dangerous consequences.
A flattering mediocrity gets everything it wants.
Jealousy is the weak fruit of pride or the disease of the madman.
The shy man is accosted by every passerby.
It's always like that in life: we strive, make plans, prepare for something, and fate gives us something else entirely. Starting with the greedy conqueror, able to swallow the whole world and ending her as a humble blind man, led by a dog, we are all toys of her whims. And it is possible that the blind man who follows the dog will follow a straighter path, and be less often deceived in his expectations, than the first blind man with all his retinue.
How gratifying it is to be loved for who you are.
The poor must have no defect.
To the good-hearted, gratitude is not a burden.