Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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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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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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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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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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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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As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.
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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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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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