"Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet."
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"The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool."
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"Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman."
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"Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune."
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"The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?"
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"But woman brings disorder into society through passion."
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"Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer."
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"Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love."
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"Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them."
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"Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?"
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"Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones."
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"In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity."
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"How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!"
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"True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!"
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"A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal."
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"At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise."
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"The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again."
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"To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman."
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"Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret."
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"Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival."
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