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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

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Sects differ more in name than tenets.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

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