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

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.

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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

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Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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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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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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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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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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