You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. |
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. |
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. |
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. |
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. |
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. |
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .` |
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. |
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance. |
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. |