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Princesses running away with dancing masters and French masters engaged
at their husbands' courts.

* * *

A man in love is always interesting. What a pity it is that husbands
cannot always be in love!

* * *

Men who always praise women do not know them well; men who always speak
ill of them do not know them at all.

* * *

What particularly flatters the vanity of women is to know that some men
love them and dare not tell them so. However, they do not always insist
on those men remaining silent for ever.

* * *

The saddest spectacle that the world can offer is that of a sweet,
sensible, intelligent woman married to a conceited, tyrannical fool.

* * *

The mirror is the only friend who is allowed to know the secrets of a
woman's imperfections.

* * *

When a woman is deeply in love, the capacity of her heart for charity is
without limit. If all women were in love there would be no poverty on
the face of the earth.

* * *

The fidelity of a man to the woman he loves is not a duty, but almost an
act of selfishness. It is for his own sake still more than for hers that
he should be faithful to her.

* * *

Two excellent kinds of wine mixed together may make a very bad drink. An
excellent man and a very good woman married together may make an
abominable match.

* * *

Jealousy, discreet and delicate, is a proof of modesty which should be
appreciated by the very woman who should resent violent jealousy.

* * *

When you constantly hear the talent or the wit of a woman praised, you
may take it for granted that she is not beautiful. If she were, you
would hear her beauty praised first of all.

* * *

It is slow poison that kills love most surely. Love will survive even
infidelity rather than boredom or satiety.

* * *

Men study women, and form opinions, generally wrong ones. Women look at
men, guess their character, and seldom make mistakes.

* * *

All the efforts that an old woman makes to hide her age only help to
advertise it louder.

* * *

Of a man and a woman, it is the one who is loved, but who does not love,
that is the unhappier of the two.

* * *

Women often see without looking; men often look without seeing.

* * *

I know handsome men who are bald, and there are not a few, but many, who
derive distinction from this b