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Quotes from J. de Finod — Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens

1704–1771 France

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Constraint is the mother of desires.

J. de Finod (1902)

A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport.

J. de Finod (1902)

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