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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.
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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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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
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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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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.
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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
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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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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
Honore de Balzac