“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
Great“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
Great“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
Great“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Love“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
Equality“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
Respect“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
Finance“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.”
Love“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
Power“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.”
Mom“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
Alone“A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”
Wedding“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”
Love“The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.”
Marriage“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
Love“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”
Men“A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”
Good“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”
Business“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
Peace“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”
Great“The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.”
Women“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
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