Émile Souvestre

Women speak in the superlative.

— Emile Souvestre

“If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the reception of it is the rarest of virtues.”

— Émile Souvestre

“Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation, and the last third in repenting.”

— Émile Souvestre

“He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils:”

— Émile Souvestre

“Before we complain of being ill we should prove that we deserve to be well.”

— Émile Souvestre

Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.

— Emile Souvestre

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

— Emile Souvestre

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

— Emile Souvestre

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness…

— Emile Souvestre

“One of the infirmities of our nature is always to mistake feeling for evidence, and to judge of the season by a…

— Émile Souvestre