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We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

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Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

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A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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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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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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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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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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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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Necessity is the spur of genius.

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