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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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.

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Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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