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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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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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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

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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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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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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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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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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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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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