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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
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Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.
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In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.
feelings natural natural-feelings
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.
heart pride causes
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?
bird break-out males
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.
friends dog true-friend
On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.
eye animal men
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.
happiness hypocrisy social
Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
happiness heart men
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
hatred giants journalism
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
moving knowledge men
A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
mother fashion sex
Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.