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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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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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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.

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It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

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Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

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

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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

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While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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