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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

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Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

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Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

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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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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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

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But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

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