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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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

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All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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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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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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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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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

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

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Necessity is the spur of genius.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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The more one judges, the less one loves.

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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 endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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