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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.