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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

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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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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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