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- The more one judges, the less one loves.
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than…
- In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
- Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
- The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.
- Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic…
- The more you judge, the less you love.
- There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years…
- A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.
- Sects differ more in name than tenets.
- Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
- The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.
- Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
- Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
- I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who…
- He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the…
- Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes…
- Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than…
- A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more
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