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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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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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We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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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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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

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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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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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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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