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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

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The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

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No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

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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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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

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