Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
HONORE DE BALZACSome day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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We love because we love.
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
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The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
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Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
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