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Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Shun idleness: it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
All thinkers have about the same principles, and form but one republic.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Anything serves as a pretext for the wicked.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We never live: we are always in expectation of living.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The best written book is a receipt for a pottage.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Superstition excites storms; philosophy appeases them.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
The art of praising caused the art of pleasing.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
History is only a record of crimes and misfortunes.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
"Well! sage Evhemere, what have you seen in all your travels?" "Follies!"
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
O love! only a few rays of thy sacred fire radiate in this exhausted world!
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
We can not always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Our country is that spot to which our heart is attached.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
All religions are more or less mixed with superstitions. Man is not reasonable enough to content himself with a pure and sensible religion, worthy of the Deity.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Life is long enough for him who knows how to use it. Working and thinking extend its limits.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him!
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Society depends upon women. The nations who confine them are unsociable.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)