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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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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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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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But does not happiness come from the soul within?

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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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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

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