There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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