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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.  
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.  
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person...  
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as th...  
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man...  
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.  
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrasse...  
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair...  
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a ...  
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a futu...  
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present...  
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around th...  
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman...  
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.  
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and ju...  
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is hor...  
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.  
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terribl...  
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of suc...  
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.  
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-tim...  
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than nati...  
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die....  
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.  
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no ...  
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; ...  
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be,...  
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexception...  
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.  
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very har...  
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pes...  
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves th...  
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that ...  
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very b...  
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individu...  
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there a...  
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.  
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.  
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, m...  
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and wit...  
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; ...  
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.  
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.  
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain o...  
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to...  
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we...  
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having la...  
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment...   Love
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almo...  
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly ...