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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

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Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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

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

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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