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Sects differ more in name than tenets.

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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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

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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

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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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But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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