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men thinking law
Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?
marriage men feelings
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
simple men secret
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.
moving secret affair
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
grateful men secret
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.
husband hatred inspire
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.
husband wife lovers
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
lying overcoming wickedness
It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.
player men heaven
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
believe world said
Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.
inferiority modesty helping
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
wife thrones married
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.
widows handsome limits
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.
quality vices failing
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!