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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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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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What is art? Nature concentrated.

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

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