When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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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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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
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We love because we love.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
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