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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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True love is eternal infinite and always like itself. It is equal and pure without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is alway...more

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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to ...more

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The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

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Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever decei...more

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for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

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The more one judges, the less one loves.

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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

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Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some nat...more

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.