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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

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They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.

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Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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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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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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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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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 beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

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