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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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