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Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

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Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

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Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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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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Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

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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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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

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