Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun.

Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun.

Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun.

Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun.