Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
