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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.
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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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One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.
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Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.
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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
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Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.
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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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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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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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Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God.
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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
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Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.
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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.
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