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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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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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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

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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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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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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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Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

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Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

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Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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