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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

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When women love, they forgive everything...

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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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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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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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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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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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