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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)
I confess I should be glad if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to me: in that case, I should often find matter for rejoicing.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)