One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Speech happens to not be his language.
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
