autiful
nature of woman to consider herself as a reward, but it is also,
unfortunately for her, too often her misfortune.

* * *

We admire a foreigner who gets naturalized in our own country, and
despise a compatriot who makes a foreigner of himself. If a man joins
our religion, we call him converted; if one of ours goes over to
another, we call him perverted. In the same way, we blame the
inconstancy of a woman when she leaves us for another, and we find her
charming when she leaves another to come to us.

* * *

The reputation that a woman should try to obtain and deserve is to be a
sensible woman in her house and an amiable woman in society.

* * *

Frivolous love may satisfy a man and a woman for a time, but only true
and earnest love can satisfy a husband and a wife. Only this kind of
love will survive the thousand-and-one little drawbacks of matrimony.

* * *

Men and women can no more conceal the love they feel than they can feign
the one which they feel not.

* * *

Love feeds on contrasts to such an extent that you see dark men prefer
blondes, poets marry cooks and laundresses, clever men marry fools, and
giants marry dwarfs.

* * *

God has created beautiful women in order to force upon men the belief in
His existence.

* * *

Like all the other fruits placed on earth for the delectation of men,
the most beautiful women are not always the best and the most delicious.

* * *

In the heroic times of chivalry men drew their swords for the sake of
women; in these modern prosaic ones they draw their cheques.

* * *

Women entertain but little respect for men who have blind confidence in
their love and devotion; they much prefer those who feel that they have
to constantly keep alive the first and deserve the second.

* * *

A woman can take the measure of a man in half the time it takes a man to
have the least notion of a woman.

* * *

There are three kinds of men: those who will come across temptations and
resist them, those who will avoid them for fear of succumbing, and those
who seek them. Among the first are to be found only men whose love for
a woman is the first consideration of their lives.

* * *

Young girls should bear in mind that husbands are not creatures who are
always making love, any more than soldiers are men who are always
fighting.

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