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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
Nothing succeeds so well as success.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.
Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.
It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.
[Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]
It is the beginning of the end.
[Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.
