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A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

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Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

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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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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

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A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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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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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

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

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Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

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