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The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

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Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

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Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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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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When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

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Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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We love because we love.

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

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

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