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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

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There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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

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Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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