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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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All we are is in the soul.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

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To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

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

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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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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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

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