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

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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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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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

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We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

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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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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

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

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