Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.