People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.