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A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
Suzanne Curchod
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Suzanne Curchod
Age: 55 †
Born: 1739
Born: May 6
Died: 1794
Died: May 15
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Crassier VD
Louise-Suzanne Necker
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The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.
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Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
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Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
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Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
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Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.
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Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
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It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
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It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.
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Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.
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It is never permissible to say, I say.
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Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.
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