"How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!"
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"It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music."
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"The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste."
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"A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage."
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"Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case."
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
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"A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once."
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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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"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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"Cruelty and fear shake hands together."
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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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"Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact."
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"As a rule, only the poor are generous."
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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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"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
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"Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire."
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"Where poverty ceases, avarice begins."
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"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."
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"Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance"
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