1. “Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.”
2. “The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.”
3. “Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.”
4. “The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.”
5. “Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.”
6. “Equality may be right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
7. “Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.”
8. “When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”
9. “Bureaucracy is giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
10. “H has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”
11. “He who best knows the world will love it least.”
12. “Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”
13. “Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”
14. “The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.”
15. “Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
16. “A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!”
17. “All human power is a compound of time and patience.”
18. “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
19. “Behind every fortune there is a crime.”
20. “If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.”
21. “There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
22. “Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of ignorance.”
23. “A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.”
24. “Cruelty and fear shake hands together.”
25. “As a rule, only poor are generous.”
26. “Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.”
27. “Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything routine.”
28. “The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.”
29. “Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.”
30. “Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
