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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Novelist

Born: May 20th, 1799

Died: August 18th, 1850

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