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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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To speak of love is to make love.

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No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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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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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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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

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