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women talking storm
When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.
women desire female
One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
women feelings action
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.
spring mistake errors
The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true
love spring ocean
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
men rich poor
To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
ideas justice brain
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.
women suffering weakness
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
women dresses poetic
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
failure remembrance age
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
business political secret
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
power doe force
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
jealousy stupid envy
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
jealousy heart envy
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.