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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

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Temperament is the thermometer of character.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

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There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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