Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.
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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.
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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
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Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
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The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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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A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
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One hour of love has a whole life in it.
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