Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

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There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Collection: Men
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The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.
- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Collection: Greatness
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He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Collection: Confidence
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To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.
- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Collection: Passion
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Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.
- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Collection: Rose