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joy soul taste
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
evil ends journalist
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
jealousy passion play
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.
jealousy fashion smart
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.
jealousy men want-something
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
nature flower toads
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.
past men sorrow
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
men raised estimation
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
drama passion gestures
Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
men mind genius
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
positive cutting sentimental
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
husband lying player
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
fall people rich
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
children two fruit
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?