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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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To speak of love is to make love.

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A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

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The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.

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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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

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