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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

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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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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

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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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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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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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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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