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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
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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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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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Economized love is never real love.
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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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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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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.
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Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.
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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?
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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.
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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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