Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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