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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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Sects differ more in name than tenets.

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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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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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Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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