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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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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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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Love is a game in which one always cheats.

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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

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We love because we love.

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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

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During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

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