Quotes 21 till 34 of 34.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues.
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