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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

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Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

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The more you judge, the less you love.

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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

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When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous.

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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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