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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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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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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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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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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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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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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
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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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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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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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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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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
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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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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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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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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
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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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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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