High society is a poor play, a bad, boring opera, made slightly better by its staging, costumes and scenery.
Nicolas Chamfort
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
virtues man truth
A man well-known to be a liar had just told a most improbable story. Sir, while I believe you, someone said, you must admit that it's very wrong of truth not to condescend to be more plausible.
wrongs man truth
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
fortune art
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
society art
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
government
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
nature
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
rights man nature humannature
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
men theend
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
change
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
thetimes time the-public
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
sleep death
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
marriage history
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
society
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
society the-public
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