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A grass blade believes that me...

A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

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Fools gain greater advantages ...

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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Most women wish to feel that t...

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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No woman allows her lover to d...

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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When women love us they forgiv...

When women love us they forgive everything.

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To forget is the great secret ...

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

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A woman filled with faith in t...

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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Does not any limit imposed upo...

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

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As a rule, only the poor are g...

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

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Gentleness in the gait is what...

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

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Sometimes, one gesture compris...

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

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Glory and fame mean twelve tho...

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

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Glory is a poison, good to be ...

Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

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Give to a wounded heart seclus...

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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Grief ennobles the commonest p...

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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Hatred like love feeds on the ...

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

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A woman's greatest charm consi...

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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A husband can commit no greate...

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

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Man's condition is horrible be...

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

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To get a traveling salesman dr...

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

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