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voice soul desert
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
wine misfortunes
Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.
money feelings age
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
money gold add
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.
gone today nobility
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
powerful wine passion
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
mother passion noble
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
passion law forgiving
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?
couple passion duration
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
dream home gentleman
Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
men sheep sea
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.
society pity victim
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.
wise strong people
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
memories forget capacity
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.