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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

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An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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Economized love is never real love.

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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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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.

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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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

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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

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