"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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"All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense."
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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"The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it."
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"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
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"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."
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"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
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"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
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"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy."
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage."
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"It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity."
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"The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech."
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"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation."
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"If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere."
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"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
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"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."
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"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
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