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Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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