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Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs!
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one’s dearest friends.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917)