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Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

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

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Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

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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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Love which economizes is never true love.

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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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He who best knows the world will love it least.

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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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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 man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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