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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

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Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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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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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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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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Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer.

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All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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