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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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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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The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted.

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I am not deep, but I am very wide.

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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

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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

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A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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

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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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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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