We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

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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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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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