The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.