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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The virtuous action, done for virtue's sake alone, is truly laudable.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
He who knows his incapacity, knows something.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Extreme concupiscence may be found under an extreme austerity.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Hypocrites are wicked: they hide their defects with so much care, that their hearts are poisoned by them.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
It is difficult to repent of what gives us pleasure.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The true and the false speak the same language.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Since love teaches how to trick the tricksters, how much reason have we to fear it — we who are poor simple creatures!
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Many weep for the sin, while they laugh over the pleasure.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Pleasures are sins: we regret to offend God; but, then, pleasures please us.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
There are few husbands whom the wife can not win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Men are so accustomed to lie, that one can not take too many precautions before trusting them — if they are to be trusted at all.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them: hence it comes that they often meet with devils.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)