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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

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By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

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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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