Others found delight in the most ordinary amusements
     Our tempers are like an opera-glass
     Paint from nature
     Paris has become like a little country town in its gossip
     Pass half the day in procuring two cakes, worth three sous
     Patience, should he encounter a dull page here or there
     People meeting to “have it out” usually say nothing at first
     People whose principle was never to pay a doctor
     Perfection does not exist
     Pessimism of to-day sneering at his confidence of yesterday
     Picturesquely ugly
     Pitiful checker-board of life
     Playing checkers, that mimic warfare of old men
     Plead the lie to get at the truth
     Pleasures of an independent code of morals
     Police regulations known as religion
     Poor France of Jeanne d’Arc and of Napoleon
     Poverty brings wrinkles
     Poverty, you see, is a famous schoolmistress
     Power to work, that was never disturbed or weakened by anything
     Power of necessity
     Prayers swallowed like pills by invalids at a distance
     Pride supplies some sufferers with necessary courage
     Princes ought never to be struck, except on the head
     Princesses ceded like a town, and must not even weep
     Principle that art implied selection
     Principles alone, without faith in some higher sanction
     Prisoners of work
     Progress can never be forced on without danger
     Property of all who are strong enough to stand it
     Pure caprice that I myself mistook for a flash of reason
     Put herself on good terms with God, in case He should exist
     Quarrel had been, so to speak, less sad than our reconciliation
     Question is not to discover what will suit us
     Rather do not give—­make yourself sought after
     Reading the Memoirs of Constant
     Reason before the deed, and not after
     Recesses of her mind which she preferred not to open
     Reckon yourself happy if in your husband you find a lover
     Recollection of past dangers to increase the present joy
     Recommended a scrupulous observance of nature
     Recourse to concessions is often as fatal to women as to kings
     Redouble their boasting after each defeat
     Regards his happiness as a proof of superiority
     Relatives whom she did not know and who irritated her
     Remedy infallible against the plague and against reserve
     Repeated and explained what he had already said and explained
     Reproaches are useless and cruel if the evil is done
     Resorted to exaggeration in order to appear original
     Respect him so that he may respect you
     Richer than France herself, for I have no deficit in my budget
     Romanticism still ferments beneath the varnish of Naturalism
     Ruining myself, but we must all have our Carnival
     Sacrifice his artistic