“It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues”
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“It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues”
“A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought”
“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it”
“It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.”
“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone”
“Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed”
“Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more”
“Out of difficulties grow miracles”
“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less”
“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”
“One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched”
“It requires more than mere genius to be an author”
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
“The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes”
“Love and friendship exclude each other”
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth”
“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit”
“The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished”
“Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty”