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Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

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For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

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Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

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A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

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A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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