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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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An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

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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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Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

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A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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