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All Quotes Collection
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
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"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
56
"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings."
17
"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
45
"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."
17
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
22
"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital."
20
"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established."
48
"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
54
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."
19
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
53
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
56
"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
20
"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
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"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
61
"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."
21
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love,
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"The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband."
51
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
56
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
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"There is something great and terrible about suicide."
51
"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste."
47
"Modesty is the conscience of the body."
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