Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival

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Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes

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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow

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Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters

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Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious

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According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on

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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry

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A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne

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