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

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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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The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

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Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

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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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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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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 lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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