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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.



The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.



Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.



There is something great and terrible about suicide.



An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.



Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.



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



Behind every great fortune there is a crime.



Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.



A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.



Modesty is the conscience of the body.



Necessity is often the spur to genius.



Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.



Love is the poetry of the senses.



Finance, like time, devours its own children.








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