For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.