All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
The sewer is the conscience of the city.
France lost a great novel last night.
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don’t see that?
I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
There are no rules for felicity.