The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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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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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
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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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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The greater a man’s talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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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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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
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