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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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True love rules especially through memory.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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