MondayMay 11, 2026
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
When a husband and wife have got each other, the devil only knows which has got the other.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Evil is a form of good, of which the results are not immediately manifest.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
God is the poet, men are but the actors.
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, And to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
The house is turned entirely upside down when the hen crows and the cock is silent.
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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 and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent idealsthat is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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 to say pretty things from time to time.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Write your masterpieces! And do not forget that in our profession there is no middle state; you must be kingor be only a laborer.
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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