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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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

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Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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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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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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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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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

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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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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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