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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
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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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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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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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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
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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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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.